In one of the clips, it appears to do this without command, and in another the gadget fails to answer why it reacted like this.

And many users were left terrified over the possible implications of this.

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CREEPY: Amazon has vouched to fix the issue

“We’re aware of this and working to fix it.”

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But now, Amazon has responded to the claims.

“We’re aware of this and working to fix it," the company said in a statement.

Later on in the day, they revealed the planned fix will involve disabling the phrase, “Alexa, laugh,” and changing the command to “Alexa, can you laugh?” from now on.

The company says the latter phrase is “less likely to have false positives".

“We are also changing Alexa’s response from simply laughter to ‘Sure, I can laugh,’ followed by laughter,” an Amazon spokesperson said.

Twitter user @CaptHandlebar was one of the first people to report the issue.

In a video posted to the social media platform, the user added: “So Alexa decided to laugh randomly while I was in the kitchen.

“Freaked @SnootyJuicer and I out. I thought a kid was laughing behind me.”

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Since the tweet was uploaded it has received more than 5,000 retweets and almost 13,000 likes.

One reply read: “That’s so scary.”

And another added: “Her laugh is so creepy. If she did that to me, I would faint.”